Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 290 views
The City Council voted to approve funding to upgrade a computer mainframe system that’s more than 35 years old.
The $3.5 million technology upgrade will bring the city’s business into the Internet age, ending the need to rely on 2.6 million lines of coding necessary to update the website.
The city’s chief information officer, Peter Wallace, had warned that Chesapeake’s information technology was long out of date and recently said he was worried about a future “total breakdown” related to antiquated technology: police radios that couldn’t send alerts, power outages shutting down the city’s information grid and a technology work force retiring with no one qualified to replace them.
COBOL, the program the city has been using, is not taught in schools anymore, which makes hiring new employees a challenge, Wallace said.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 608 views
What to do with legacy systems is a topic that has come up a number of times in talking to other developers.
Legacy means different things to different people; for instance, it could mean anything from a 40-year-old COBOL application to a classic ASP Web page from 10 years ago. But one thing is certain: Nearly every shop has a few of these systems lingering around and periodically ask, “Which applications are worth updating?” (READ MORE)
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 249 views
“The call center system is 9- to 10-year-old technology that can barely be maintained,” said Jablonsky, who described the COBOL-based eligibility software …
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 261 views
Will low-cost offshore competition and packaged apps make the in-house programmer obsolete? Coding software has been a good living for a half million or more–sometimes far more–Americans…
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There is little doubt that modern, automated insurance systems can do jobs faster, easier and less expensively than outdated legacy systems, but some significant challenges face insurers who elect to modernize their enterprises.
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